bar room sessions
an interactive free//style meditation in three phases
phase one: cypher (2018)
Collaborators:
Chanice Holmes, cyan cian, innerversions (DJ Chinua), Joshua Eddington, Tara (Bobbi) Sylvester
the cypher is sustained joy.
the cypher is moving the body through space with purpose.
the cypher is our memory of pain manifested in power.
the cypher is always moving. the cypher is an open container for us, by us.
the cypher is a conversation on self-love. the cypher is
self-love.
Photo Credit: Fernando Lopez (@sentir.con.ojos)
phase two: closet disco (2021)
When asked what I miss most about pre-pandemic living, my mind first travels to a crowded dance floor, as I slip and slide around other patrons, dripping in shea butter, sweat, and ecstasy. Collectively, we (re)vision afro//queer communal space as pulsating, sacred havens where blueprints for future worlds are perpetually sketched, rehearsed, performed, documented, and archived.
So, I then wonder, as I near on a year of mostly isolation and solitude, what has become of my capacity to future? Where am I to slip and slide into unabashed bliss? In phase two, I engage in a sankofic line dance with DJs, disco, and a childhood closet, excavating tools and futuring strategies manifested throughout time in these dark, damp basements and illuminating their urgent, critical necessity as we presently shuffle together, in solitude, toward limitless possibilities.
phase three: belly of the wail (2022)
Collaborators:
Caleb Buchanan - composer
Malachi Middleton - filmmaker
could’ve bit my tongue right off but I didn’t
I guess im thankful cuz it coulda been worse
went on and tripped on that damn metal staircase and
the wiggle and jiggle wasn’t there no more
it had flown right there to the back of my throat and disappeared
I done swallowed my wiggle and my jiggle –